What Kind Of Car Was Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Fleming s own standard tourer which he had driven in switzerland in the late 1920s and chitty bang bang a chain driven customised mercedes with a 23 litre 6 cylinder maybach aero engine.

Fleming had also begun to write the children s book chitty chitty bang bang. All of this was built around a modern ford v6 engine with automatic transmission. Chitty bang bang chitty 1 edit. For the 1968 film six cars were created this one was the fully functional road going car.

It was the first amateur machine to achieve celebrity at the brooklands race track in 1921. Ian fleming saw one of the cars as a boy and thus inspired him to write the children s book chitty chitty bang bang. Chitty chitty bang bang is the vintage racing car which is featured in the book musical film and stage production of the same name. Chitty 1 won two races in her debut appearance reaching speeds of 100 75 miles an hour in the brooklands short handicap.

The car itself was based on a composite of two cars. Writer ian fleming took his inspiration for the car from a series of aero engined racing cars built by count louis zborowski in the early 1920s christened chitty bang bang the original chitty bang bang s engine was from a zeppelin dirigible. Chitty rolled out of the workshop in june 1967 and was registered with the number plate gen 11 given to her by ian fleming in his novel. The first chitty was a chain driven customised mercedes chassis with a twenty three litre six cylinder maybach engine.